The Times - Cryptic - Times Jumbo 918 - April 2, 2011

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Clues Answers
Acrobats use it, putting duty over comfort, it's said TRAPEZE
Act more ineptly than jerks in offspring's port? SOUTHAMPTON
Advancing to higher position in advertising PROMOTING
Announcement of this country's imperial edict UKASE
Army character in Athens taking commander a pudding TAPIOCA
Arrogance shown by poet displaying hirsute growth SIDEBURNS
As ponies may be most advantageously used for transport? BESTRIDDEN
Asian soldiers question invading islands IRAQI
Blundering American general in Rome once CRASSUS
Caretaker the writer's employed after season out West INTERIM
Complaint from Cotswold club about article printed in Paris BLEAT
Country soldier attached to a Continental city PERUGIA
Country youth, one encountered in Shakespeare? SWAIN
Criminal fleeces diver — one pretending it isn't happening? SELFDECEIVER
Dean's girl raving about City in Louis XIV's time GRANDSIECLE
English plant's urge to produce springtime gift EASTEREGG
Family members' new compositions not requiring piano NIECES
Flighty African page three girl? SUNBIRD
Flooded area adjoining high-class European plant FENUGREEK
Gold leaf Norma sold, but without the wrappings ORMOLU
His line in children's literature is not without its points THOMASTHETANKENGINE
I appeal over a chapter, one in Genesis ISAAC
In Glasgow, long to celebrate game without altercation SLANGINGMATCH
It accommodates a pupil, this writer said EYE
Jurassic reptile conservationists in Laos embodied in a sign ATLANTOSAURUS
Keep an eye on a giant lizard MONITOR
Kid's mum and granny turned out not gay NANNYGOAT
Lied about queen going over German city food store? DELICATESSEN
Like rubbish ultimately written in class one, unfortunately NONSENSICAL
Like some dry fruit off one's trolley NUTTY
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Like wedding ceremony at college, in Latin translation NUPTIAL
Man in charge succeeded, following chosen area of technology ELECTRONICS
Mexican-American name taken for granted at first in US city CHICANO
More than one in number, like serous membranes, we're told PLURAL
Narrow channel, fortified STRAITLACED
Nasal sound it takes pluck to produce? TWANG
Non-discriminatory framework for current film PIC
Not giving anything away regarding late sleep-over DEADPAN
Old county theatre takes American, rising star SUPERNOVA
Panegyrics from Europe supported by gallery half-heartedly EULOGIA
Pass the summer in Vienna initially in a car AESTIVATE
Pay printers' unit entering race on European scale REMUNERATE
Point defined in relation to triangle moving to the corner? ORTHOCENTRE
Promotion including books on sin suffering poor circulation HYPOTENSION
Put out fire and bill a chum for wine LIEBFRAUMILCH
Radical curtailment of run disrupted production of Times EXTREMIST
Remaining unconscious, will ignore the beep finally? OVERSLEEP
Run, seeing youth stabbing debauchee ROULADE
Sailor entertaining army medics in public vehicle TRAMCAR
See woman commander taking bearings DIOCESE
Senseless-sounding scam involving semiconductor SILICON
Skinny wife taken in like a seven-year-old UNDERWEIGHT
Sources of work popular with fellow in back street INTRAYS
Top cleric sees monkey that's tumbled into old organ PRIMATEOFALLENGLAND
Triple crown identified originally in seat of Irish kings TIARA
Unable to translate old record, Heather approaches university man MONOLINGUAL
Unexpectedly offer a post planting trees AFFORESTATION
Visit, say, popular resort out East affording picturesque views SCENIC
Wealthy person beginning to invest in factory beside river MILLIONAIRE
Wretched peer in 29 avoiding Liberal leader after birth of child PUERPERAL